Yeah, here on HN nobody knows you're a headless dog. You have to deliberately click on someone's name to even know their karma score... and there isn't much reason to care.
(That's just some random user's page, as linked from the front page.)
I can see how that would be enough to put me off a site for life.
And is it just me or is the "giant, echoingly empty, horizontally scrolling timeline" layout the stupidest design decision since... well, the name "Plurk", which sounds like something your dog might say if he were missing his head?
And, wow, headless dog, no kidding:
http://www.plurk.com/user/gnidan
(That's just some random user's page, as linked from the front page.)
I can see how that would be enough to put me off a site for life.
And is it just me or is the "giant, echoingly empty, horizontally scrolling timeline" layout the stupidest design decision since... well, the name "Plurk", which sounds like something your dog might say if he were missing his head?